Alfred Smoczyk

Alfred Smoczyk was an international motorcycle speedway rider from Poland.

Speedway career

Smoczyk was the first champion of Poland, winning the Polish Individual Speedway Championship in 1949.
In 1950, he was killed in a motorcycle accident in the Kąkolewski forest, near Gostyń. Later that year on 30 September, the Polish President Bolesław Bierut posthumously awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
In 1951, a tournament in Leszno was named in his memory and in 1953 the Stadion im. Alfreda Smoczyka was named after him.